The European Poker Tour Monte Carlo and PokerStars Open — two sister sequence happening at Sporting Monte-Carlo — are underway, and two record-breaking occasions are already within the books — let’s check out who dominated.
Chris Nguyen is tremendous
Because the opening occasions of the PokerStars Open ended, EPT Monte Carlo formally began with the €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion on Could 3. The nosebleed occasion attracted 53 gamers who rebought 21 occasions to swell the prize pool to €7,179,480 ($8,125,904).
And the person who snatched €2 million of that was Chris Nguyen, a from Frankfurt, Germany, who, till about six months in the past, was solely on on-line money professional. Certain, he had a splattering of cashes taking part in match poker, however nothing just like the run he’s on now.
He scored his first seven-figure money in December within the World Sequence of Poker’s $26,000 occasion at Paradise Resort the place he completed fifth for $2.1 million.
Enrico Camosci completed second for €1,304,500, with American professional Seth Davies in third for €931,900. Nguyen rejected a cope with three gamers left.
“I form of felt that despite the fact that it was three-handed, there was a lot heads up afterwards, I simply needed to play,” he mentioned.
Orpen Kisacikoglu (€716,900), Leon Sturm (€551,380), and Mikita Badziakouski (€438,300) completed fourth by sixth.
Jon Kyte wins opener
If there was a singular delay to Jon Kyte’s journey to Monte Carlo, he wouldn’t even have performed within the €1,100 PokerStars Open Major Occasion. He bought into the match as late as participant might have because the final seconds of late registration was about to finish on Day1E.
However sadly for all the opposite gamers, the professional from Norway not solely bought in, however continued his dominance in PokerStars dwell occasions in Europe. However this time, he bagged the massive one, good for €340,000.
“I’ve 4 little PokerStars spadies, however lastly the massive one!” Kyte informed PokerStars Weblog after his win. “That is what we play for. Each time I come to a PokerStars occasion I’m trying on the huge trophies, and it feels wonderful to lastly get one.”
And he did it in an occasion with a record-breaking area in Monte Carlo — 2,387 complete entries (together with 1,189 re-entries) who created a prize pool of €2,291,520.
The person is on a tear: 14 of his most up-to-date 20 dwell cashes have been final-table finishes.
And it’s been occurring since he completed second at EPT Prague in 2023 for a career-best €643,000. He additionally has a fourth-place end in a Excessive Curler occasion at EPT Barcelona for €280,750, and he simply missed out on his first World Sequence of Poker bracelet final summer time, coming as shut as doable in a Omaha8 occasion for $148,462.
Frances Gilles Cadignan was the runner-up, good for €214,070. Eire’s Conor Bergin completed third (€153,330), Romania’s Scutaru Liviu Razvan fifth (€117,720), and Spain’s Javier Tazón rounded out the highest sixth (€89,320)
The EPT Monte Carlo Major Occasion is operating now till Could 10.
